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zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language. Many of the useful features of bash, ksh, and tcsh were incorporated into zsh; many original features were added.

I am using 'zsh' by default.
But when I am in my zsh shell, I enter 'bash' to switch to bash, why the $SHELL variable does not change?
Can I make screen to use whatever shell I right before execute ...

How can I find out in which configuration file the environment variable $MANPATH is set? Is there a way to backtrace the values?
I am aware of that I can grep through the whole file system using find ...

Currently I have zsh set up in such a way that command history is shared between all sessions immediately.
Say I have a terminal emulator open with two tabs, each with a zsh session, A1 and A2. If I ...

For some reason I can't change my zsh prompt by typing, say, PS1="%#". I'm using the admin-suggested config on Ubuntu 11.10. Am I doing it wrong or is it a bug?
Here's the content of my ~/.zshrc:
# ...

Something odd has just started happening. On opening a new terminal, the first line of the terminal now says:
install: target 'xmas' is not a directory.
I've no idea what is causing that to happen, or ...

I use urxvt in combination with zsh. However since my fresh install of ubuntu 10.04 I have the following problem. If I type backspace the cursor moves to the right (instead of deleting the characters ...

How can it be achieved so that every command that is entered, is visible in every open terminal's history?
When having multiple terminals open, the history isn't shared, i.e. what you entered in one ...

I'm considering moving from bash to zsh as I often come across posts praising zsh. I'm an experienced command line user and I'm assuming the basics are pretty much the same, so I'm looking for advice ...